Yipin Tianxia

When everyone is present, the play begins.

Ouyang Kang always thought that even if his father-in-law couldn't see, his eyes were three points brighter than those with discerning eyes.

Maybe he knows everything, anyway, young master Ouyang can understand his daughter-in-law's glances, and he can also understand his father-in-law's eyes without a teacher.

Mu Shaoqin gave him a wink, and he immediately got to work, chatted with Ji Longfeng and those big tea merchants, put on a businessman face, and talked about business.

The three tea merchants took out more than 20 tea leaves of different specifications and appearances in the usual way of doing business, ordered people to brew them one by one, and sent them to Mu Shaoqin and others. After they tasted it, they decided to buy it or not. How much to buy.

To be honest, Ouyang Kang couldn't discern such detailed differences other than the general pros and cons, so he just kept his mouth shut.On the contrary, Ji Longfeng, who claims to know nothing about tea, has given some advice.

"Although I can't taste good or bad, but luckily my nose is okay, and the tea leaves say spring water and autumn fragrance, so these few teas that are lighter should be spring teas, and the ones with strong fragrance should be autumn teas, right?"

Several tea merchants nodded repeatedly, "Master Long really has good eyesight, that's exactly what it is."

Unexpectedly, Mu Shaoqin smiled lightly, raised his slender white fingers, and accurately picked up a cup of tea that Ji Longfeng classified as spring tea, "The bosses are not kind, this is clearly autumn tea from two years ago, because When the scent fades away, they are used to pretend to be spring tea, but are you going to test us?"

The tea merchant who provided the cup of tea suddenly changed his expression. Because Mu Shaoqin called himself Shao, he said, "Master Shao, how can you say that? We make tea. How can you be so dishonest?"

Mu Shaoqin smiled slightly, and gently put down the cup of tea, "Do the bosses really want me to talk?"

His eyes swept over those tea merchants as if they were real, and the three tea merchants were all shivering, and suddenly felt cold all over their bodies.

Mu Shaoqin didn't bother with them, but suddenly asked the onlookers, "May I ask if there was a lot of rain in this summer two years ago? It must have been torrential rain, right?"

An old man in his 50s said in surprise, "How did you know? In the summer two years ago, we had a heavy rain here. For two days and two nights, although it did not cause a catastrophe, it also washed away a lot of fields. What about the crops?"

Mu Shaoqin chuckled, "No wonder, no wonder, this cup of autumn tea doesn't have enough aroma, but also has the heat of summer rain. In fact, it is right to store it in the cellar. But it shouldn't be done in this way. Not to mention ruining the tea, it also ruins the tea." gained a reputation."

Several tea merchants looked at each other, some couldn't sit still.

Every industry has some unspoken rules. For example, when there is too much spring tea in a certain year, they will be reluctant to sell it collectively.Drive up the high prices of previous years, and then sell them slowly.

And when it rains.If the quality of autumn tea is affected, they will use the insufficient production as an excuse to pick some top tea leaves and sell them at a high price, and then smoke the remaining tea leaves to increase the fragrance and refill them as second-best tea, or store them in cellars until the taste is bland.Then sell it as spring tea.

In short, there are so many things, we must make the best use of them.

And because the taste of tea is similar.Few people can taste these nuances, so after doing it for a long time, even they almost forget that there are these loopholes.

A tea merchant stood up and said, "Master Shao, what proof do you have for saying this? If not, wouldn't it be an insult to our entire Xianyuan Mountain?"

The hat buttoned up quite a bit.But it came just in time!

Ouyang Kang snorted and slapped two palms lightly. Tong Chaoyi immediately led someone to lift out a large box from behind.

The box was opened, and it contained various teas from the shops under the names of the three tea merchants.There are not many items, just a box of two taels, but they all bear the signs of the three shops, and there is also the account that the shop is asked to show when buying, absolutely cannot be denied.

Ouyang Kang smiled sinisterly, "Bosses, I don't know much about tea, but my father-in-law loves tea. Hearing that your Xianyuan produces good tea, I, as a son-in-law, must do my best to be filial and buy some tea. Give him a taste of good tea. Unexpectedly, none of the tea I bought in your whole Xianyuan can catch my father-in-law's eyes, and there are many fake ones. Fortunately, my father-in-law is magnanimous, no Don't care about my recklessness, but if you act like this, aren't you afraid of ruining the reputation of the entire Xianyuan Mountain?"

This was the strategy that Ouyang Kang had thought before. If the Lingzhou officials were determined to embezzle to the end, then he would simply ruin the reputation of the entire Lingzhou tea!

This tea tax will not go to the emperor, and it will not kill you.

As for how to do it, it's too easy.Framed, spread rumors, anyway, Ouyang Kang is backed by the emperor's Shangfang sword, he believes that even if the emperor knows, he will acquiesce.

Wait until this interest chain is completely interrupted, and then reorganized, the emperor will be able to take the initiative, and the problem of tea tax will be easily solved.

However, this method is good, but it is too ruthless, and Mu Shaoqin disagrees.

As a senior tea lover, he decided to help his son-in-law accomplish this blow in a more gentle and elegant way.

So at this time, everyone present saw him smiling lightly, "My son-in-law is young after all, he has a rough temper, and he is a little anxious. He only knew that I love tea, so he dragged the whole room back regardless. Of course, he said that you have no good tea in Xianyuan Mountain, which is too arbitrary. However, some teas here are really not worthy of the table."

After a pause, he smiled more modestly, "Don't think I'm too straightforward. Although I haven't been drinking tea for a long time, thanks to the kindness of my ancestors, I have tasted a few good teas. If you don't agree, can you share with me? Should I fight? If we lose, our son-in-law Weng will naturally apologize to you."

The expressions of the three big tea merchants changed, and even the expressions of the surrounding people also changed.

It is indeed difficult to have a clear proof of whether the tea is good or bad, so at this time, the words of experts are very important.And how to reflect the value of experts?

Fighting tea is undoubtedly the most intuitive and simple competition in the tea ceremony.

Mu Shaoqin said it modestly on the surface, if he loses, he will take back his words and admit his mistake to Xianyuanshan.But what if he wins?Do you want the reputation of the entire Xianyuan Mountain?What about the thousands of people who live on tea?

Ji Longfeng came to a conclusion that both the Weng and his son-in-law are not good people!However, he also had to admit that this trick was really ruthless and beautiful enough.

As for Mu Shaoqin, if he dared to propose a tea fight, how could his level be any worse?

Just seeing him put out the set of tea cups with silver rabbit hair, the surrounding people changed their expressions in an uproar.

Looking at his understatement, he took out a box of tea leaves with light yellow paper on them, not caring about making people see that it was for the royal family, and then poured out a cup of top-quality tea elegantly and freely, and the soup was white and bright easily. Who would dare to step forward to fight with the highest state of Tanghua in full bloom?Who dares to force him to take back his previous words?

The three tea merchants sat there paralyzed with pale faces, cold sweat dripping from their foreheads.

There is no need for bloody storms at all in a master's fight, just a smile, and you can kill the enemy invisible.

The reputation of Xianyuan Mountain tea was completely ruined.

This Danlu Peak is not high, and the mother and daughter of Nianfu can't climb for a while, and they have already reached the top. After playing on the top of the mountain for a while, they pulled out weeds and wild flowers, made a pair of rings, and came down.

Excitedly, Nian Fu weaved himself into a bracelet and gave it to Ouyang Kang, "Look, I made it up, doesn't it look good? Let's have one for each of us."

Hui Niang was also not reserved, and put the one she made up for Mu Shaoqin on her left hand, "You smell it, it smells so good!"

Ouyang Kang looked at his mother-in-law's delicately braided, simple and generous bracelet, and then at his rough and loose bracelet covered with wild flowers, and whispered in his daughter-in-law's ear, "You are better than your mother." Much prettier!"

You have vision!The little daughter-in-law was triumphant, "Are you finished talking? Go back to eat after talking, I'm hungry."

Mu Shaoqin gave a spoiled smile, "Let's go now."

He took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Niang Hui, and brought the cup of tea he just made to her, silently praising her.

Satisfied, Hui Niang took the silk handkerchief and wiped off her sweat, then drank the cup of tea in one gulp, "Let's go. Masters, let's take our leave. Let's go to the restaurant today and find something delicious."

Good, good, Nian Fu actively agreed, "I want to eat dessert, let's see if there is any good one here, and I didn't turn around and ask A Yao to cook a pot of sweet soup."

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Mu Shaoqin suddenly turned around and asked with a smile, "Mr. Long, do you want to go together?"

Ji Longfeng smiled a little far-fetched, "No need, you family can do what you want. It is a great fortune to see Mr. Shao's tea art today."

Mu Shaoqin nodded indifferently, turned and left.

He is blind, but it doesn't mean he can't even feel that other men are coveting his wife.But he won't give him this chance, absolutely not!

In the evening of that day, before it was dark, the story of the tea fight at Danlufeng had already spread throughout Xianyuan Mountain.

Chai Rong, who just came to Xianyuan Town, heard the bad news before he could wash off his dust.

"Stupid!" Chai Rong was so angry that he wanted to shake the table, "Since you knew that he was King Ping, you are so foolish to fall into this trick! It's a good time, if you can't find someone who can defeat him, how will it end?"

The tea business in Lingzhou accounts for nearly [-]% of the Chai family's business, which is a very important branch of their huge business.Especially the tea business is easy and profitable. It would be really distressing if someone cut it off like this.

More importantly, from this matter, Chai Rong could see the emperor's intention to rectify the taxation.

If the Lingzhou tea tax really allows him to do it, then the emperor will definitely clear up all the taxes step by step in the same way.And the various business lines that the Chai family opened up during the troubled times might be lost, which would be a huge loss for the Chai family.So no matter what, he must not be allowed to succeed!

The magistrate of Xianyuan Mountain had already changed into casual clothes and came to meet him. He said with a mournful face, "...Ping Wang showed such a trick, no one in the entire Xianyuan Mountain dared to fight tea with him. Mr. Chai, you should go outside and invite a senior People come. Otherwise, if King Ping leaves, this stigma will never be washed away."

Chai Rong took a deep breath, and said with a cold face, "Go back first, since I'm here, I have my own countermeasures." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, yours Support is my greatest motivation.)